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It's hardly 'iconic'. That word needs to not be thrown around loosely. There are very few iconic logos in sports.

Agreed. I recently took a good, long look at the primary marks of the franchises in MLB, MLS, the NBA, the NFL, and the NHL. Frankly, there are a lot of logos that range from "meh" to flat-out bad. The truly outstanding designs - let alone those that I'd rank as "iconic" - are few and far between.

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If there’s any team that would look good going as minimalist as possible, it’s the Cardinals. If they kept the current logo but just brought back the previous home set and added a matching road set, it would look perfect for them. They’re one of the absolute oldest teams in the history of the league, and really should embrace that.

All they need to do is ditch the pants stripes on this set, and it would fit them like a glove

Hell, if they wanted to even bump the numbers on the sleeves up to the shoulders and use the AZ state flag, that would be great, too. I always liked the way they did that with the road set. Ditch the extra set of stripes on the sleeves, and you have a winner.

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When the Cleveland Browns relocated to Baltimore in 1996, part of the agreement between then-owner Art Modell and the NFL was that the Browns name, colors, uniforms and history would remain in Cleveland for a future expansion franchise. With that, […]

It occurred to me a while ago that the Jaguars’ minimalist uniform style and approach is so much better suited for the Cardinals (due to their history) than a team like the Jaguars. If the Cardinals had the same helmet they do now, and from the neck down had cardinal and white version of the Jaguars’ idea, that would’ve really worked for them in my opinion. I wish they would’ve beaten the Jaguars to the punch there.

In any case, it’s been time for them to change for long while now. Murray is right, they look very outdated and I hope their set’s days are numbered.

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If there’s any team that would look good going as minimalist as possible, it’s the Cardinals. If they kept the current logo but just brought back the previous home set and added a matching road set, it would look perfect for them. They’re one of the absolute oldest teams in the history of the league, and really should embrace that.

All they need to do is ditch the pants stripes on this set, and it would fit them like a glove

Hell, if they wanted to even bump the numbers on the sleeves up to the shoulders and use the AZ state flag, that would be great, too. I always liked the way they did that with the road set. Ditch the extra set of stripes on the sleeves, and you have a winner.

A team that plays in a UFO shouldn't wear the most traditional uniform in the league. The Cardinals are a mess, but a Jaguarsish overcorrection isn't the answer.

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Isn’t the current Ravens logo something they basically quickly slapped together after they lost the copyright case?

Its amazing to think that it’s stuck around this long and has been the main logo for two Super Bowl wins. While it’s not something I find to be completely awful at first glance, when you really examine it up close, it’s probably the worst logo in the NFL.

It's really quite awful on its own, but it's especially bad because you generally think of the Ravens as a really no-nonsense, vicious, intimidating team, representing a city that's evocative of blight and death and despair, and then they have this silly purple cartoon bird and those dorky '90s-style numerals. They need to go with the Maryland flag shield on the helmets or some sort of old-fashioned B, but not this bird head.